Chapter 185 185 Tanjung Grand Landing
Probably since the Battle of Malaya in 1941, the land has not faced such a large-scale military invasion. At that time, Malaya still had 140,000 British troops and the Far East Fleet, and now Malaysia has no garrison of the former suzerain, no strategic cruiser Prince of Wales, and the total strength of the entire West Malaysia is less than 100,000, and their enemies are constantly sending elite combat strength to the country through aircraft and ships, and it seems that the country will be destroyed in an instant.
At this time, in addition to the capital Kuala Lumpur, there were already many sporadic strongholds established by the Chinese army in the western region, either a battalion, or a company, and even some strongholds had only two platoons of a few dozen people, and the areas under their control were often villages and urban areas inhabited by Chinese, and under their protection, the order of production and life of Chinese compatriots had been basically restored. At this time, no matter how small the stronghold they had established, no Malay would dare to besiege them. Those Malay troops that have formed into formations actually peculiarly maintain a posture of standing still, which makes Qi Yiming, who is remotely controlling the situation in Malaysia, feel incomprehensible.
Compared with the western region, the rule of the Malaysian authorities has almost basically collapsed, and Kuantan is still relatively good, at least the local government is still operating normally, but they still have some real work intentions.
It has been three days since the riots in Kuala Lumpur, and there has been no serious anti-Chinese activity here in Kuantan from the beginning, so the normal life of the Chinese has not been affected, but since the anti-Chinese incident, the Chinese in Kuantan have also become cautious, and many shops are closed early, or even closed these days. Many people are also walking on the street to avoid the Malays, and in fact, after learning that the country was invaded by the Chinese, the Malays also looked like a rat trap, looking at the Chinese who originally belonged to the same country as themselves, they all felt that they might be spies sent by the northern countries.
Kuantan was in an eerie quiet.
The people here have not been able to hear from the authorities, the usually bullish Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has not made any official statement until now, and the major television and radio stations in Kuala Lumpur are also occupied by the Chinese army, and they have not forced them to stop the operation of these media, but on the contrary, these media are still broadcasting programs, but these programs are either made for them by their Chinese counterparts or made under duress.
At a Cantonese café in Kuantanhua, there are few customers sitting on a CCTV on the wall with a black-and-white picture, but the content shown on the TV is quite vibrant. The usually controversial head of state, Johor Sultan Iskandar actually appeared on TV in formal attire, calling on the national army to stop the unjust acts, and strongly condemned the anti-Chinese actions, and attacked the government's inaction and connivance, which eventually led to the intervention of the Chinese army, he demanded more political power for the Chinese, abolished a series of racist policies such as the fixed crackdown system, and demanded that the perpetrators be held accountable for the incident.
You can come up with it with your heels, and it is impossible for Iskandar Sultan to come up with such high-end words, someone must have given him a manuscript for him to memorize, which shows that the Sultan's personal discipline and patriotism are quite low.
In cities such as Kuantan where no serious conflict has broken out, the feelings of the local Chinese are rather complicated. On the one hand, they are happy to see the Chinese kick the Malay monkeys' ass fiercely and help them out of their bad breath, but on the other hand, they are also struggling with national identity. Although they belong to the same Chinese nation, they are Malaysians after all, and the country is abused by the powerful iron horsemen, and there will be a simple patriotic complex that makes them dissatisfied. In addition, the Malaysian Communist Party's troubles in Malaysia are still vivid, and the long-term education of hating the CCP has made them have strong uneasiness and suspicion about China.
Since public opinion in Malaysia is dominated by the Chinese military, a large number of negative and Chinese-oriented news has flooded all visible national media, and a large number of unfavorable remarks that have been covered up in the past have also exploded.
The calm Kuantan was finally awakened like a sleeping baby by the volcano, awakened by the sound of a terrible air raid siren. The people who had been silent suddenly became flustered, and no one knew how the attack of the Chinese army would behave and whether they would be injured by mistake, even those Chinese did not feel that it was a safe thing.
Fortunately, a clever man shouted: "Not towards here, towards Tanjong Gelang!" ”
Tanjung Grand is the real port of Kuantan, and it is still more than ten kilometers away from the city of Kuantan, so when people found out that the fighters attacking from afar were attacking the port area to the north, everyone was relatively calm. However, anyone with a brain knows that after the occupation of the port area, a larger number of Chinese troops must have reached Malaysia by sea, which was what the Japanese did during the Malay campaign more than 40 years ago, and China is now just copying the old route of the Japanese Imperial Army.
The Chinese were generally calm, because the Chinese army came under the banner of saving the local Chinese compatriots and would not harm themselves, but those who participated in the riots on television and broadcast were severely punished. The Malays, on the other hand, were much more panicked, and if the Chinese really took over this place, it was unknown what fate they would face. So more and more Malays are packing up their gold and silver (if any) and starting to flee the Kuantan city and go to the countryside and other places, and some even plan to hide in the jungle, which is also a people who have come out of the woods anyway.
A total of 8 J-8V Skua fighters participated in the first wave of bombing of Tanjung Gelang, because there was almost no worry about air defense sniping, so they did not have escort fighters, all of them were equipped with ground weapons, and at most two PL-8 combat bombs hung on the wingtips. There are no more large ship targets in Tanjung Grand that are worth the excitement of the HNA carrier-based aircraft force, so they do not carry the YJ-83K, but more AR-2 and LT-3 weapons.
Unlike a few hours ago, the 9th Division of the Navy bombed the port of Sebanga, the main purpose of bombing Tanjong Grand was to cover the landing, so any military targets were within the scope of the attack, including coastal defense artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, barracks and other facilities.
This kind of bombing is lackluster, because the current military strength between China and Malaysia is much more different than the gap between Britain and Japan in the past, of course, the current Ma army is very similar to the British army in the past, that is, low morale.
When precision-guided bombs began to fall on the naval base in Tanjung Gelang, the Skua pilots were surprised to see that their enemy was not about to use anti-aircraft artillery to counterattack, but was scrambling to climb into trucks and prepare to retreat from here.
This kind of "looking down on people" thing will naturally not be recognized by the J-8V pilots, and a fighter plane swooped down with the cannon on the fighter plane to strafe the retreat on the ground that was preparing to evacuate without being completely wiped out. The cannon shell also hit a tanker truck parked on the side, causing an even more violent explosion and destroying most of the evacuation convoy.
Until the Skua pulled its nose up again and returned to the safety of the non-contact combat zone, the Malaysian anti-aircraft guns did not aim at him for a single counterattack.
The enemy's pustules seriously affected the combat pleasure of the HNA pilots, so they decided to finish the battle as soon as possible. More bombs were dropped, and half of the important facilities in the port area were heavily damaged, but several pilots were selective during the attack, and port facilities such as gantry cranes and cranes were not destroyed, so that the fleet could be easily loaded and unloaded when it arrived.
Zheng Zhantu did not hesitate after receiving the reward of the bombing effect, and the performance of the Ma army made almost the entire fleet full of confidence, not thinking that they could pose any threat to him. Two 071 dock landing ships and 072 medium landing ships each released air-cushion landing craft or amphibious combat vehicles with floating capabilities, and two navy-sized heavy double-edged helicopters also set up more than 90 marines each to start vertical landing.
There were not many shore guns and anti-aircraft guns here, and after being knocked out by carrier-based aircraft, the beach-grabbing landing operation north of the port became as simple as a spring outing. The Marine Corps has focused on studying such a subject of amphibious operations since last year, and the units used to fight this time are also grass-roots units with excellent evaluations, two double-edged helicopters and several Z-20s have a faster speed, but they do not exceed the landing force on the water, and the lightly armed vertical landing aircraft landing lacks the cover of heavy weapons, so it is not appropriate to rush to the forefront in one breath, even now Zheng Zhantu doubts that there is a Malaysian army defense on the shore.
Thirty ZBD-05 amphibious combat vehicles took the lead on the beachhead, and as soon as they appeared, they were hit by some sparse fire from the woodland next to the beach.
The Malays did not have many weapons, mostly the sound of automatic rifles and machine guns, and a few mortar movements, but none of them hit. The two 056 corvettes, which had already approached the shore, took advantage of their shallow draft and began to shell the rebellious forests from a distance of one or two nautical miles from the shore.
Although the 76mm naval gun was not a heavy artillery, the rate of fire was considerable, and the two 76mm fast guns swept along the woodland by the beach, and after a round of fighting, they could not hear the Ma army's return fire, and I don't know whether the road was killed or scared away.
Eight 726 air-cushion landing craft rushed onto the beach, this time it was not only the ZBD-05 that came down, but also the Grizzly Bear tanks that had just been equipped, these tanks that weighed more than 30 tons and could maneuver freely on relatively harsh terrain, replaced the Type 99 and became the main tank in the battle of Zhengma.